Terry-cloth



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TERRY CLOTH.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK LEAKE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TERRY-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION 'forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,372, dated October 5, 1886. vApplication filed May 20, 1885. Serial No. 1.66,-171. (No specimens.)

`T0 aJZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANK LEAKE, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvenientin Terry-Cloth; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is an improved fabric which I call stitched terry-cloth.7 It is designed principally, but not exclusively, for cloakings; and the invention consists in the peculiar'construction of the fabric, all as hereinafter fully explained,whereby a new and pleasing appearance and effect are produced.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l rcpresents the right side or face of a piece of my improved cloth, with a portion of the terry surface removed in ordcr to better illustrate the stitches. Fig. 2 represents the back of the same. Fig. 3 shows a section on line .fr x of Fig. l. Fig. 4 shows a section on line y y of Fig. l, the terry-surface being omitted in this figure also.

The effect designed to be produced by my invention is to give an appearance of stitching in various designs and colors. The body of the fabric is the ordinary terry-cloth, which is woven with a lling or weft thread, asin ordinary goods, and witha bottom (or tight) warp. This, with the filling, forms the cloth proper on which the terry-pile is made, which is done by employing a second-(loose) warp. The filling is picked across about one-half inch frein the body of the cloth, (the stroke of the reed being shortened,).and this is repeated three times, (or four, as the case may be,) and on the third pick the reed is tightened or drawn up into place, thus driving the three picks home at once, and the bottom warp being tight allows the filling to slide along the same, but the top warp being loose gives way and folds up into loops. The stitching forms no part of the body of the fabric; but the threads which form the same are passed through separate harness, which only works formed by stopping one of the pile-beams from weaving and weaving in conjunction with the bottom beam plain fabric by passing the filling through the same, as in ordinary cloth,

thus allowing the stitching-threads to show,

the said threads passing through to the front of the fabric at the same time the plush or terry is stopped off from the space. These groups of threads are of a color or of colors differing from that of the terry fabric to which the threads are applied, and when a group of threads is carried through and overa space on the right side of the cloth a spot is formed thereon resembling stitching, and the spots formed by all the groups constitute the pattern, varied easily by the location and sizeof the spots.

In the drawings, c represents thc-fabric,and b is a group of the threads which give the stitching effect. These threads are. carried underneath the cloth at 1, and through at- 2,form' ing a stitched spot at c.

I claim as my invention- A terry fabric having a series of spaces' in its surface, and a series of threads, b, carried underneath the body of the fabric, as at 1, and up over the surface of the body, as at 2, at the point where the described spaces occur in the terry-surface, thereby forming a stitched spot, as at c, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeicat-ion in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK LE'AKE.

Witnesses:

DoUGLAs LEAKE, FRANK GRAVEN.

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